Facebook videos issue

Facebook videos don't work: no pictures or only the first picture, but sound is okay. Issue with other website too who embed a non Youtube video. You probably will reply, it's because it is non HTML 5 videos. Well. Okay. But how to deal with non HTML 5 videos? Chrome does it.

What happens if you disable hardware acceleration in settings? Do videos start playing fine then? If so, you can turn hardware acceleration back on and modify Opera's shortcut to pass this setting to launcher.exe to see if that does the trick.

@jfhicter Okay. Go to opera://flags and reset any that you modified back to "default". Modify Opera's shortcut again. This time just try--disable-software-rasterizer to see if it helps. (This is based on a hunch from a recent Chrome bug I saw.)

@jfhicter Okay. Go to opera://flags and reset any that you modified back to "default". Modify Opera's shortcut again. This time just try--disable-software-rasterizer to see if it helps. (This is based on a hunch from a recent Chrome bug I saw.)

I checked opera://media-internals/ but it is too cryptic for me. I don't know where to find a relevant information

Start Opera and try to play a problem video. Then, open opera://media-internals. You'll then see a little box for the player in question. If you click it, it'll expand and show you details. In the Player Properties table, it should tell you what type of video is trying to play and you should see a mention of an error or failure somewhere in the table. You could just screenshot that table if it's easier.

Can you go to "Details, switch to "hardware id" and post that? That can be looked up on Google and such to find it. Of course, if you know your processor model number.

The particular driver you have covers some old Intel GPUs, but not sure about some slightly newer ones.

Point being, you might be able to go to https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/80939/Graphics-Drivers, change the view by product drop-down and find a newer driver for your GPU just to see if it makes a difference. And, with Hardware acceleration on, turning on opera://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist just to test if it works is something to try.

There's also a new version of Opera out, so make sure you're updated to 56.

The particular driver you have covers some old Intel GPUs, but not sure about some slightly newer ones.

Point being, you might be able to go to https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/80939/Graphics-Drivers, change the view by product drop-down and find a newer driver for your GPU just to see if it makes a difference. And, with Hardware acceleration on, turning on opera://flags/#ignore-gpu-blacklist just to test if it works is something to try.

I did the "update test" and all my drivers are ok...

There's also a new version of Opera out, so make sure you're updated to 56.

Oh, indeed. Just wondering if Opera is blacklisting your GPU or something and Chrome is not. I assume the blacklist is the same. But, I think it's possible for Opera to have a a different blacklist. Maybe opera://gpu will reveal something.

Thanks for the hardware ids. The point to 1st-gen HD graphics. But, I'm not sure if that's correct. What's your CPU model?

Oh, indeed. Just wondering if Opera is blacklisting your GPU or something and Chrome is not. I assume the blacklist is the same. But, I think it's possible for Opera to have a a different blacklist. Maybe opera://gpu will reveal something.